An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Retired Major General Paul E Vallely admits; “Iran has Nuclear Weapons” – Nuclear Iran Part One

In a sobering interview with PJTV for eleven dramatic minutes, Retired Major General Paul E Vallely, now the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., sat down in interviewer with Paul Whittle and voiced his most immediate concerns: Iran is already “Nuclear” and Iran is preparing a preemptive attack upon Israel with Hizballah. This will produce the “‘Tipping Point’ for the Middle East” and that the “Summer of 2010 is pivotal – it can change the whole world.” Using statistics and intelligence information that were less than 30 days old, Maj. Gen. Vallely made these succinct remarks in this Video interview with Paul Whittle on May 20, 2010. Here is a summary of this notable intelligence news:

· Iran is preparing a massive preemptive bombing campaign upon the Land of Israel in order to outflank the swelling international evidence that the United States and/or Israel is preparing an imminent attack upon the nuclear state of Iran.

· The Hizballah forces in Lebanon are preparing a “Summer Offensive” that will change the nature of the world as we know it.

· In the last 10-30 days in Beirut, Lebanon, a Russian submarine carrying an Iranian flag was docked in the Beirut Port. At port they were offloading unknown supplies but it was noted that the offloaders were wearing HazMat or chemical warfare suits. This evidence suggests to international observers that they were unloading chemical weapons of mass destruction purportedly or potentially to use in a massive missile assault on Israel.

· Since the 2006 war between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon, the Iranian government through the Syrians has effectively stockpiled not 40,000 but 50,000 to 60,000 rockets and missiles in Lebanon.

· The report is true and verifiable that the military forces of Hizballah in Lebanon have received long range Iranian SCUD missiles (Shehab 3 missile) that have a range of 450 kilometers that can hit every city in Israel including Eilat, Israel on the Red Sea. Vast missile bunkers have been entrenched all along the Lebanon-Israeli border. They are aimed at all major Israeli cities, military bases, and suspected nuclear weapon sites, in the bid to decapitate the Israeli military, destroy all their runways so planes cannot return home for refueling.

· The delivery of chemical weapons of mass destruction into Israel would trigger the Israeli government “last resort” in the launch the “Sampson Option”, a full scale retaliatory nuclear counter attack against Lebanon, Syria and Iran and possibly the Palestinians.

· Gen. Vallely also affirmed that President Obama renewed sanctions against Syria for another year, as confirmed by Agence France–Presse and reported in the New York Times, accusing Damascus of supporting terrorist groups and pursing missile programs and weapons of mass destruction. The appointment of an American Ambassador to Syria, considered, was also postponed indefinitely.

· Intelligence sources noting “Roads to Nowhere” coming from Syria to Lebanon are now consider to be major transport roads for weapons of mass destruction into the hands of the forces of Hizbullah located in the lands in the beautiful Bekaa Valley between the Lebanon and anti-Lebanon Mountains.

· The Iranian trained Hizballah forces are now cracking down “tight” on all movement of all people and instituting a totalitarian military state. The internet is stopped, and communication with foreigners monitored by Hizballah agents. All Christian and Druze populations are under a “death threat” and any suspicion on communication with any suspected Israeli assets would mean sudden arrest and execution of any civilian charged with suspicious activities.

· The Major General gave direct warning of at least 4 tunnels exiting along the Northern Israeli-Lebanon territory have been built for Hizballah forces to invade into Israel, produce terror with intent to capture Israeli territory for Hizballah possession.

When Maj. General was then inquired by the Interview Whittle if Iran was”nutty enough” to use the nuclear bomb. The Major General Vallely proclaimed, “Absolutely, plus I believe Iran will load up a container ship with a Shehad 3 nuclear tipped missile and launch it offshore against either Israel or the United States with only minutes notice of an attack rather than use an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).

Retired Major General Paul E. Vallely

Retired Major General Paul E. Vallely

The Biblical and Prophetic picture speaks eloquently about the days of Redemption with the G-d of Israel will have to declare His divine intent upon the nations of the world with His harsh and heavy hand. This Redemption will not come with “haste” as He restores Planet Earth to a restored Eden in what Rabbi Lazer Brody and the sages of Israel call, “achishena”. For as the great Jewish sage, Rashi explains if the people of Israel are worthy, then the Geula (Redemption) will be hastened (achishena).

It appears that the Jewish prophetic imageries of the Book of Revelation are about to be revealed in all their sobering intent. An era of catastrophes and apocalyptic wars are about to descend upon Planet Earth.

A few of the most dramatic “End of the Age” prophesies have yet to be fulfilled for the “Appointed Time” of the G-d of Israel had not arrived. If the “Appointed Time of b’ita” has arrived, then we are witnesses to one or all of the prophesies listed below.

1. Psalms 83 – Ten National Islamic entities will turn against the Nation of Israel represented by the Islamic Arab States of the Middle East. As the G-d of Israel spoke to the prophets:

“Psalms 83 (parts) - “Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God! For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate You have lifted up their head. They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, and consulted together against Your sheltered Ones. They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. For they have consulted together with one consent; they form a confederacy against You.”

2. Zechariah 9 prophesies against Damascus (Syria and Lebanon) and the Philistines (Palestinian people) where Damascus will be destroyed and Tyre and Sidon (Hizballah in Lebanon) and even Gaza will cease to exist as we know them today.

Zechariah 9:1-7 (parts) – An oracle: the word of the Lord has come to the land of Hadrach (Modern Lebanon) and established himself in Damascus: (Syria) for the capital city of Aram (Damascus) is the Lord’s as are all the tribes of Israel...Tyre and Sidon (Lebanese coastal cities) has closed her frontier against Hamath (Upper Syria)…the L-rd will cast Tyre out…Ashkelon shall see it and fear; Gaza also shall be very sorrowful…the king (Hamas President) shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited…I will cut off the pride of the Philistines (Palestinians) , I will take away the blood from his mouth and the abomination from between his teeth, but he who remains (of Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians) even he shall be for our G-d (Eternal One of Israel).”

3. The Dramatic prophecies of Daniel 8 depict the final world conflicts between the two major contenders of world dominion; the Eastern global communists powers of Russia and China fronted by their military ally and asset; the Persian Nation of Modern Islamic Iran and the Western global contender for world dominion, the Western economic internationalists of Europe and the United States.

Daniel 8: 1-5, 15-21, 26 (parts) - “Then I (Daniel) lifted up my eyes and saw, and there, standing beside the river, was a ram which had two mighty horns (Persian Iran buttressed by the two mighty global horn powers of the Eastern global communist powers of Russia and China), and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last…

Suddenly a male goat came from the west, across the surface (global aerial power, elal “flew across”) of the whole earth, without touching the ground; and the he-goat had a notable horn between his eyes. Then the he-goat came to the ram that had two horns…and ran at him with furious power. And I saw him confronting the ram; he was moved with rage against him, attacked the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to withstand him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled him and there was no one that could deliver the ram from his hand. ..

When I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was seeking the meaning, that there suddenly stood before me One having the appearance of a man (Archangel Gabriel). A man’s voice (Archangel Michael)…called and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision…And he said to me, “Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the time of the end…Look, I am making know to you what shall happen in the latter time of the indignation (Nazi holocaust of the Jews) for at the “appointed time b’ita” the end shall be.

The Ram (Persia/Iran) you saw, having two horns – they are the kings of Media and Persia (controlled by the Eastern Mongolian powers of Russia and China). And the Male Goat is the kingdom of Greece (Mystical Dark Powers of the Democratic Economic Internationalist States the modern European Union and NATO fronted by the military horn power of the United States as “Greece is the face of Rome”).

Therefore seal up the vision, for it refers to many days in the future.”

Will this raging battle possibly coming within the next six months be any one of these prophesies or all of these prophesies together as one? Only the G-d of Israel knows. What we do know, the only promise of protection from destruction to any of the nations on Planet Earth that the Holy One of Israel has given is to the Land of Israel. Will out of the present Zionist State of Israel arise a new Greater Israel? The prophets unanimously agree!

Is it not interesting that the Zechariah war against Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank comes at a time in world history when “all the eyes of men and all the eyes of Israel (Lost Tribes of the House of Israel) are watching the L-rd of hosts. Out of the destruction and holocaust of this looming Great World War III will also rise up the “Dry Bones” of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and their redemption (Zechariah 10) to the Promised Land of their Forefathers.

Nuclear Iran Series

“Retired Major General Paul E Vallely admits; ‘Iran has Nuclear Weapons’” – Nuclear Iran Part One

“Iran had Nuclear Weapons, Cruise Missiles in 2008 and Russia did Not give it to Them – Directly” – Nuclear Iran Part Two

“President George W. Bush signed 2008 State of Emergency, feared Nuclear North Korea, prepared to Launch Attack on Nuclear Iran” - Nuclear Iran Part Three

“Is America preparing for a 2010 Tisha B’Av or Yom Kippur War with Israel against Iran?” – Nuclear Iran Part Four

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

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Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member